Astrologer or Astrologist: What is the Preferred Designation?

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Spirituality

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In episode 340 astrologers Chris Brennan and Leisa Schaim discuss whether the preferred designation for a practitioner of astrology is "astrologer" or "astrologist", and why it is important. The motivation for this discussion is that there seems to be some confusion among non-astrologers about what the preferred word is to use. In general, the preferred designation is "astrologer", and this is the word that is used and often strongly preferred by the vast majority of practitioners today. During the course of the episode we review three informal polls that were done on social media that indicate that between 90–99% of astrologers prefer the term "astrologer" over "astrologist". Despite the overwhelming preference for the term astrologer, some social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and more recently Twitter have made it so that practitioners can only select the term "astrologist" when listing their profession. Thus, part of the purpose of this discussion is to raise awareness about this issue among the general public. While there are occasionally some astrologers who do use the term astrologist, and that is ok, the purpose of this discussion is to clarify that since the vast majority of practitioners prefer the term astrologer, that is the word that should probably be used by non-astrologers when referring to the profession. This discussion is partially based on an article Chris wrote in 2014 titled Is it Astrologer or Astrologist? This episode is available in both audio and video versions below. Watch the Video Version of This Episode Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0W4t5QCCWw - Transcript A full transcript of this episode is available: Episode 340 transcript Listen to the Audio Version of This Episode You can play the audio version of this episode of the podcast directly from the website or download it as an MP3 to your device by using the buttons below:

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0:00.0	Hey, my name is Chris Brennan and you're listening to the Astrology podcast in this episode
0:04.2	I'm going to be talking with Astrology Lisa Shime and we're going to be discussing whether the correct designation is
0:10.1	Astrologist or Astrologer for a person who practices the topic of Astrology. So hey Lisa, thanks for joining me. Hey Chris
0:19.5	Glad to be here. Yeah, thanks for coming back again. So this is episode 339. We're recording on Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
0:26.3	starting at 12 actually string at 105 PM in Denver Colorado. So in order to set up the context for this discussion
0:34.5	I'm actually going to answer the question right at the top for those of you that just want to answer to the question and want to find out
0:39.7	whether it's Astrologer or Astrologist
0:42.8	because there's confusion
0:44.8	amongst the public mainly about what the correct designation is and
0:50.1	The answer to that question is that the preferred designation is Astrologer not Astrologist
0:58.2	So this is the designation Astrologer that the vast majority vast vast majority of practitioners
1:04.8	Who practice astrology have adopted and prefer at this point in time in the year, you know, 2022 in the early 21st century
1:15.0	So while Astrologist is not grammatically incorrect and it has some historical precedent where it's been used occasionally
1:23.1	In the past it's not the preferred designation among practitioners today at this point in time
1:30.0	So when in doubt always use the word Astrologer rather than Astrologist and
1:35.6	That's basically the answer to the question and what we're going to do at this point is we're going to
1:40.2	Have a more expanded discussion to clarify and explain why that's the case and talk about some of the issues surrounding it
1:47.3	For those that want more of a deep dive answer into this topic and sort of the ins and outs of it
1:53.3	Mm-hmm, and we particularly want to clarify this and have a discussion for people outside of the astrological community
1:59.4	Because it is usually the greater public as a whole rather than astrologers per se that have an issue with this
2:05.5	Yeah, so it's mainly something where there's confusion in the public
2:11.6	Um, people that are astrologers inside the community the vast majority of them know what the answer that question is
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